# PS 43

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360012302512`
- **School name**: PS 43
- **Location**: FAR ROCKAWAY, NY 11691
- **Address**: 160 BEACH 29TH ST
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #27 (LEAID `3600123`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 40.59370, -73.76140
- **Phone**: (718)327-5860
- **Wikidata QID**: Q105020165

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 574
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 44
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.0:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 92.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Attendance: 1
  - EM Weight Performance: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 65.2% (495 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 13.3% (82 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 14.0% (86 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 67.2% (413 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 35.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.8%
- **Asian**: 61.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 0.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 93.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 29.8% — 183 students
- **English Learners**: 12.8% — 79 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 71 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 55 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,509
- **Federal share**: $4,737
- **State + local share**: $30,773
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 616
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $45,210
- **Poverty rate**: 22.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 24.4%
- **Unemployment**: 10.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,273
- **Foreign-born residents**: 35.7%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.7 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.45 miles (VERNAM BARBADOES)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 10.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 10.07% (this school: 13.33%)
- **WAVE PREPARATORY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 9.94% (this school: 13.33%)
- **CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 2.01% (this school: 13.33%)
- **FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY VI HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 10.36% (this school: 13.33%)
- **KNOWLEDGE AND POWER PREPARATORY ACADEMY VI** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 13.33%)

### ela proficiency
- **CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 43% (this school: 26%)
- **MS 53 BRIAN PICCOLO** — 0.9 mi away, 35% (this school: 26%)
- **VILLAGE ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 39% (this school: 26%)
- **GOLDIE MAPLE ACADEMY** — 1.3 mi away, 27% (this school: 26%)
- **PS 47 CHRIS GALAS** — 3.2 mi away, 59% (this school: 26%)

### math proficiency
- **CHALLENGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 51.5% (this school: 27.4%)
- **VILLAGE ACADEMY** — 0.9 mi away, 61.8% (this school: 27.4%)
- **PS/MS 42 R VERNAM** — 1.8 mi away, 28% (this school: 27.4%)
- **PS 183 DR RICHARD R GREEN** — 2.4 mi away, 30.25% (this school: 27.4%)
- **PS 47 CHRIS GALAS** — 3.2 mi away, 71.33% (this school: 27.4%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/ps-43-far-rockaway/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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